Freedom

Mugabe: The Old Man and the Coup

December 5th: Shawn Hattingh looks at the fall of Robert Mugabe from power in Zimbabwe, arguing this will not bring liberation as it doesn’t confront an en…

Lessons of Cornerhouse

November 21st: The Cornerhouse is a former theatre in Manchester squatted from January to August 2017 by self-organised homeless people linked to the Manchester A…

Institutional bias: The BBC and climate change damage

November 9th: David Edwards and David Cromwell contrast Big Media and Auntie Beeb’s coverage of Hurricane Harvey and the South Asian floods, where a Weste…

Roots of the raids against Brazil’s anarchist movement

November 5th: Following a series of raids against properties linked to the Gaucho Anarchist Federation (FAG) late last month, The Kaos Library in Porto Allegre a…

An open letter to Plan C on Corbyn’s Labour

November 1st: Plan C recently ran a series of articles about the libertarian left and the Labour Party under Corbyn, including three which were very pro engagem…

The Way Forward for South Africa: Class Struggle and Anarchism

October 24th: In this article, published online by Zabalaza Anarchist-Communist Federation, Nkululeko Khubisa of the Tokologo African Anarchist Collective cons…

Book extract: Deep Ecology and Anarchism

October 15th: Marking the run-up to the launch of deep ecology and anarchism at this year’s London Anarchist Bookfair on October 28th, below is the latter …

The Tories are desperate – expect sickness

October 6th: What a few weeks it’s been in British politics.

Anarchists and admin

September 10th: One day, after a successful revolution, in that bit of political theory where Marxism tends towards anarchism, the State will wither away and we wi…

Why does the left hate free speech? Interesting question…

August 27th: Since the election of Donald Trump, a right-wing discussion point which had long been burbling in national press outlets such as The Times and the …

Solidarity and Empathy in the Summer of 2017

August 8th: The idea that we are in competition with each other for resources is perhaps the most corrosive myth we’ve created.

The edge of precarity: Squatting in England and emergency crisis planning

July 25th: In recent decades squatting has been under near constant assault from a variety of ruling class actors.

G20: We won the battle, elites are winning the media war

July 24th: Indymedia Germany has, as with most other branches of the free media project, been ailing over the last few years (including its UK counterpart, wh…

Forget the Judge Led Inquiry – Grenfell Needs a People’s Inquiry

July 7th: The Grenfell Tower disaster shows British capitalism up for what it is.

Case Study: Organising in a community mental health team

July 3rd: A member of the Bristol Care Workers Network reflects on their experiences organising in healthcare.